It was a 180-degree mood swing in the newsroom from how we started the week Monday morning, which was the beginning of Q2. The S&P 500 had closed out the first three months of the year by beating its record closing high set in October 2007.

It was also Opening Day for baseball this week. (Wow, the Yankees look great again this year … crickets!)

We all felt good and even found a way to work in '90s teen idols Hanson (website) and their timeless 1997 hit "MMMBop" into the program. (I could play you the clip, but the music lawyers here at CNBC would have me fired, and then would sue me just for sport.) Here's the chorus:

You can let your mind run wild about the hidden market messages these teen prophets were trying to tell us. But "up, up and away" was still our theme, and we literally were singing in the commercial breaks.

I should also point out for all you market doomsayers out there, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 11 percent in the first quarter. The blue chip index has never finished in negative territory for the year when it was up at least 8 percent in Q1. (Can you give me an "Mmm Bop!")

Of course, now post-Friday's jobs report, I realize that I sound like my flood insurance salesman pushing a new insurance policy based on top historic flooding levels three weeks before Superstorm Sandy. (True story, it happened to me!) Let's just say, now there is a new "historic" flood level. And it's one my insurance doesn't cover. And the flood after the jobs number probably made a lot of investors feel like me standing in my moldy storm ravaged garage saying, "Now what?"

But I'm not bitter, and "swoon or no swoon," at least Friday woke everybody up to a little sense of reality. It allowed us to stop singing "Mmm Bop" for a minute and actually think about more serious subjects like, the economy, the Fed, the Bank of Japan, the ECB, corporate profits, Apple, Facebook, gold, oil. ...

Don't worry, we'll quickly get bored of all this serious talk and any day now find a new teeny bopper boy band song to sing along to!

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Guest Moments Worth Another Look

Monday, 8:40 a.m. ET: Larry Lucchino, CEO of the Boston Red Sox on steroid rules, the DH, the state of the "Moneyball" system, and how the Red Sox and the Yankees are both the underdogs this year! (story)

Tuesday, 7:15 a.m. ET: David Stockman on the coming financial crisis due to "The Great Deformation" (video); 7:45 a.m. ET, Nasdaq OMX CEO Bob Greifeld on buying the eSpeed trading platform for U.S. Treasurys. (story)

Joe at 6:01 a.m. ET on a Tuesday morning … "Andrew, at this point, hair anywhere is good."

However, that was not nearly as awkward as Joe, Becky and Andrew live on air trying to talk through whether the story about Facebook eyeing the app "Bang with Friends" was real or a late April Fools' hoax. (video)

Apple vs. BlackBerry in Squawk Box Money Madness Final

After three weeks and 16 stocks, two remain. Here's a look back at our stock tournament. Vote on our Facebook page to crown Apple or BlackBerry our Stock Champ!

We regret that Facebook's potentially buying "Bang with Friends" wasn't really as true as we wanted it to be.

(Personal regret) We have not studied up on Slovenia yet (see Cyprus post from last week). If that domino falls, our newsroom will plunge into chaos and the graphics department will be scrambling for days. And it will all be my fault!

Don't start your trading day without finding out what CNBC's Jim Cramer is watching ahead of the opening bell.

Cramer Clip

Check out @jimcramer on "Squawk" with his take on how crazy this market really is and why he wants to trade in his latest tablet device for a Sony Walkman.

Nuclear 'Nut Job'

Now to that Looney Tune over in North Korea threatening a thermo nuclear holocaust this week. (Proof the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!)

Like the jobs report wasn't bad enough, I seriously have to worry about this joker over the weekend?

Nobody on Wall Street seriously worried about it early in the week, and the newsroom laughed it off. (Besides, we live on the East Coast; those nukes couldn't reach here, anyway.)

It took until Wednesday for Wall Street to decide that maybe people living on the West Coast—and even Guam—count, too.

But that notion was equally short-lived.

Thursday came, and the weekly jobless claims data seemed to rank higher on Wall Street's radar than nuking of the West Coast.

And, of course, Friday's jobs sealed the deal for blowing it off as a true market concern.

Besides, explain to me how you factor in a nuclear "nut job" who hangs out with Dennis Rodman (pix) into your investment risk model?

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Looking Forward to the Weekend

Spring planting season is upon us! I have studied all week learning about "deer-proof" plants and foliage that won't look like a patch of weeds. Don't worry, I have no true delusions that these plants will actually repel any deer or not look like weeds.

Plus, I still have to watch "The Walking Dead" finale. It's been on my DVR all week! Honesty, who doesn't crave a little weekend family bonding time on the couch together watching for the coming zombie apocalypse? Hmm, did I just stumble on a metaphor for the current bull market post-Friday's jobs report?